Wyatt Roy: Where in the world is our boy wonder?

Owen Jacques is an award-winning investigative journalist from Mackay, now based on the Sunshine Coast as APN Australian Regional Media’s Online News Editor. He has a strong background reporting on politics, business and breaking news. Owen has also specialised in resources reporting, which included a successful campaign to fight 100% fly-in, fly-out mining in rural Queensland towns.

The world is an oyster for former Longman Liberal MP Wyatt Roy, the Buderim born politician elected as the youngest politician to hold a seat in Federal Parliament at 20 and later dubbed a future Prime Minister by Deputy Leader Julie Bishop.

It seems like a long way from Caboolture in Queensland's south-east, but perhaps not as far as you would expect.

As he was fighting to be elected for a second term in 2013, he told the Caboolture News that he believed in three of his party's defining principles.

Part of his election platform was, "the right of all Australians to be free to determine how they live their life".

Now he is running down continents aboard his BMW GS700 motorbike.

The baby-faced politician who was the Assistant Minister for Innovation after helping Malcolm Turnbull become Prime Minister, might just be getting back to his roots.

The GS series BMW ridden by Mr Roy is similar to those ridden by Ewan Macgregor and Charlie Boorman in their Long Way Round and Down television series, where they travelled across continents by motorcycle.

In an interview with Fairfax, Mr Roy said he was in Parliament to "do something", not to have a career.

"I feel like I did some good and now I cannot tell you how much i'm enjoying not having all the stuff that goes with public life.